02-21-2013, 07:32 PM
I watched the whole thing live. It wasn't good. It was like the no-news of Microsoft's E3s mixed with the bad Nintendo E3s (WiiMusic).
I mean people were moving Move wands to make people dance, and then play instruments - but well, was it scripted and moved things slightly, was more at play - just what was the point?
Blue bags falling from the sky may be a technical marvel, but well - it's not really impressive to watch. Doing something more interesting (a million locusts, or flowers blooming, hell even colourful balloons - again) would have been cooler but it was still something that didn't need to be shown. Kameo promised 1000s of orcs on screen at once at one time...
As much as I like Killzone (minus the first game) with how slow the show was going, a demo where someone walked around slowly for a while at the start wasn't the best of ideas - same goes for Watchdogs. Which is well... not a PS4 exclusive and in all honesty (bearing in mind I was watching a stream) didn't look that much better from the current gen versions of it shown previously.
Knack, gameplay wise, also didn't look amazing. It seems more of a "we can use lots of objects, so lets do it" instead of a game which has been waiting for a system powerful enough.
The Witness and Diablo III also seemed pointless. I like Blow's work - but my god I hate that guy, he's so up his own arse. And with how far Sony was already up their own arse with this reveal it was painful listening to him. It's cool it's on the PS4 but showing some random scenery and puzzles didn't do anything for me. This is more something that could have been tagged on as a foot note, nothing that needed to be a main part of the show.
The main problem though was too much of people talking PR bull. Don't tell us - show us.
Have a 1 v 1 fighting game with giant robots (think Neon Genesis Evangelion) where you can kick each other through buildings, glass breaking, dust clouds, a whole city as your arena that is fully destructible. Show how people can watch from their vita/ipad etc but not just in the traditional way, but as one of the 1000s of civilians in the city or a news copter or something. Loosing? Call an expert friend for help when your health is low, robot goes into 'berserk' as your friend battles with his health bar flashing red. Anything, something - don't just tell us. A demonstration which becomes nothing more than that is better than a person using long PR words over and over again. Have the news copter guy upload the video - complete with his commentary. Show us these features in some kind of action.
I mean people were moving Move wands to make people dance, and then play instruments - but well, was it scripted and moved things slightly, was more at play - just what was the point?
Blue bags falling from the sky may be a technical marvel, but well - it's not really impressive to watch. Doing something more interesting (a million locusts, or flowers blooming, hell even colourful balloons - again) would have been cooler but it was still something that didn't need to be shown. Kameo promised 1000s of orcs on screen at once at one time...
As much as I like Killzone (minus the first game) with how slow the show was going, a demo where someone walked around slowly for a while at the start wasn't the best of ideas - same goes for Watchdogs. Which is well... not a PS4 exclusive and in all honesty (bearing in mind I was watching a stream) didn't look that much better from the current gen versions of it shown previously.
Knack, gameplay wise, also didn't look amazing. It seems more of a "we can use lots of objects, so lets do it" instead of a game which has been waiting for a system powerful enough.
The Witness and Diablo III also seemed pointless. I like Blow's work - but my god I hate that guy, he's so up his own arse. And with how far Sony was already up their own arse with this reveal it was painful listening to him. It's cool it's on the PS4 but showing some random scenery and puzzles didn't do anything for me. This is more something that could have been tagged on as a foot note, nothing that needed to be a main part of the show.
The main problem though was too much of people talking PR bull. Don't tell us - show us.
Have a 1 v 1 fighting game with giant robots (think Neon Genesis Evangelion) where you can kick each other through buildings, glass breaking, dust clouds, a whole city as your arena that is fully destructible. Show how people can watch from their vita/ipad etc but not just in the traditional way, but as one of the 1000s of civilians in the city or a news copter or something. Loosing? Call an expert friend for help when your health is low, robot goes into 'berserk' as your friend battles with his health bar flashing red. Anything, something - don't just tell us. A demonstration which becomes nothing more than that is better than a person using long PR words over and over again. Have the news copter guy upload the video - complete with his commentary. Show us these features in some kind of action.